Housing: Torbay

Adrian Sanders: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the reasons were for the 100 per cent. increase in housing development expected in Torbay proposed by her appointed panel in the South West Regional Spatial Strategy; and if she will make a statement.

John Healey: The Panel's reasons for their recommended increase are set on page 118-119 of the report. The Secretary of State is currently considering all the recommendations made by the Panel and she is planning to publish her proposed changes to the draft regional spatial strategy in the spring. No conclusions have yet been reached on any of the Panel's recommendations.

Regional Government: Ministers

Theresa May: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will list the constituencies visited by the Minister for  (a) the North East,  (b) the North West,  (c) Yorkshire and the Humber,  (d) London,  (e) the South East,  (f) the South West,  (g) the East Midlands,  (h) the West Midlands and  (i) the East of England in their capacity as regional ministers.

Hazel Blears: In their capacity as Regional Minister, the Minister for the region has visited or attended meetings in the following constituencies. Due to the role of Regional Minister, which involves regional or sub-regional meetings, the Minister may not have visited a constituency per se, but attended a meeting held in that area.
	 (a) North East
	Blaydon
	Blyth Valley
	City of Durham
	Easington
	Hexham
	Houghton and Washington East
	Jarrow
	Middlesbrough
	Newcastle Central
	Newcastle East and Wallsend
	Newcastle upon Tyne North
	North Durham
	North Tyneside
	Redcar
	Stockton North
	Stockton South
	Sunderland North
	Sunderland South
	Tyne Bridge
	Wansbeck.
	 (b) North West
	Blackburn
	Bolton South East
	Bootle
	Burnley
	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	Knowsley South
	Liverpool Riverside
	Liverpool Walton
	Liverpool West Derby
	Manchester Central
	Penrith & The Border
	Preston
	Salford
	St Helens North
	Warrington South
	Westmorland and Lonsdale.
	 (c) Yorkshire and the Humber
	Barnsley Central
	Bradford West
	Don Valley
	Doncaster Central
	Doncaster North
	Hull North
	Hull West and Hessle
	Leeds Central
	Ryedale
	Scarborough and Whitby
	Wakefield.
	 (d) London
	Cities of London and Westminster
	Hammersmith and Fulham
	North Southwark and Bermondsey
	West Ham.
	 (e) South East
	Aylesbury
	Buckingham
	Guildford
	Dover
	Folkstone & Hythe
	Hastings & Rye
	Lewes
	Maidstone & the Weald
	Mole Valley
	New Forest West
	Portsmouth South
	Reading East
	Reading West
	Thanet South
	Tonbridge & Malling
	Winchester.
	 (f) South West
	Bournemouth East
	Bournemouth West
	Bristol East
	Bristol NW
	Bristol West
	Cheltenham
	Exeter
	Gloucester
	Kingswood
	Mid Dorset & North Poole
	Plymouth Devonport
	Poole
	Swindon North
	Swindon South
	Taunton
	Tewkesbury
	Truro & St Austell
	Wells.
	 (g) East Midlands
	Boston and Skegness
	Corby
	Derby South
	Grantham & Stamford
	Kettering
	Leicester East
	Leicester South
	Leicester West
	Lincoln
	Louth and Horncastle
	Newark
	North West Leicestershire
	Northampton South
	Nottingham East
	Nottingham South
	Rushcliffe
	Sherwood.
	 (h) West Midlands
	Birmingham Ladywood
	Birmingham Northfield
	Bromyard
	Coventry North East
	Coventry South
	Ludlow
	Newcastle-Under-Lyme
	North Warwickshire.
	Stoke-on-Trent Central
	Stratford-on-Avon
	Telford
	West Bromwich East
	West Worcestershire
	Wolverhampton South West.
	 (i) East of England
	Bury St Edmunds
	Cambridge
	Great Yarmouth
	Ipswich
	Norwich South
	Peterborough
	Poplar & Canning Town
	South Cambridgeshire
	Stevenage
	Waveney
	West Suffolk.